Every week, the editors of High Country News sit in a small, lime-sherbet-colored conference room and debate what stories we should cover. Should we tackle legalized marijuana, since the West is leading the charge, or has that story become too “national?” How about North Dakota’s response to the drop in oil prices — is it […]
This land is whose land?
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Private property blocks access to public lands
Public lands belong to everyone. But private landowners can make it hard to get to them.
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The Latest: Wildlife refuges
The refuge system finally has a strategy for expansion.
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The Latest: Rio Grande water
A shortfall in water deliveries may lead to more fighting.
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On the edge of Custer’s last stand
Review of “Far As the Eye Can See” by Robert Bausch.
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Love in a post-apocalyptic world
Review of “California” by Edan Lepucki.
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Half-Blind Valley
Explorations in an urban wilderness.
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Goats at the table, and bobcats on (in) the grill…
Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
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Galloping beyond the cliché
Review of art exhibit “William Matthews: Trespassing” at DAM
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Deportation relief
Program could help immigrant families stay in the U.S.
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Balanced rocks can tell us about earthquake risk
Seismologists study precarious boulders to determine how hard the ground might shake.
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‘I Am Alaskan’
The surprising diversity of the 49th state, through Brian Adams’ lens.
Posted inFebruary 2, 2015: This Land is Their Land
Give the fossil fuel industry free rein!
In 1729, Jonathan Swift published the most famous satirical essay in the English language: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public. And what was Swift’s proposal? Merely that the one-year-old children of indigents […]
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Rants from the Hill: Hedgehog comes to the High Desert
Welcoming a fifteen-million-year-old animal to the Ranting Hill
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Plan for a burn at Rocky Flats stirs lingering fears
More from the nuclear fallout department.
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New snarl for proposed transmission line in the Southwest
In less than a week, SunZia had solved one problem just in time to encounter another.
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Hunters and anglers organize against land transfers
Sixty-nine percent of hunters in the 11 Western states rely on public lands for the sport.
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In Idaho, new worries over nuclear shipments
With governor set to offer DOE waiver, nuclear waste fears return.
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Wildlife-shooting contests are unjustified
On the first day of 2015, a photo appeared on the front page of the Albuquerque Journal, showing a solemn-looking man standing in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was looking at dozens of dead coyotes spread out on the ground around him. The man in the photo was me, and the 39 […]
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Mapping Earth’s hidden water
A new NASA satellite will measure the planet’s soil moisture.